The Talk Show 8.30pm, 12am, BBC4 The BBC's political editor, the tireless Andrew Marr, introduces the new digital channel's thrice-weekly live forum for topical debate. The subject and guests of tonight's news-based show remain unconfirmed, but we're promised "movers and shakers on the domestic and global stage" who are "original thinkers with fresh insights". Tomorrow and Wednesday's editions are arts-oriented, and presenters will vary; Waldemar Januszczek, Maria Misra and Jonathan Freedland will also take turns to oversee proceedings. Camilla Redmond

Films

The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice, 1992) 6pm, FilmFour Real people talk to each other and to camera, but the term "documentary" hardly does justice to this extraordinary and beautiful film from the director of The Spirit of the Beehive. The subject is Spanish painter Antonio Lopez and his months-long labour to paint the quince tree in his garden. It's a fascinating portrait of the artist, that observes his dealings with his wife, friends and the builders at work in his house as much as his struggle on canvas. Magnificent.

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992) 8pm, 3.40am, Sky Cinema Mann recreates Fennimore Cooper's leatherstocking tale on the epic scale: bloodcurdling action set in towering north American landscapes, and in Daniel Day-Lewis's Hawkeye, a romantic hero in the Gary Cooper mould. Madeleine Stowe makes a gutsy colonel's daughter drawn to the wilderness man, while stone-faced Wes Studi is an implacable Magua. An old-fashioned romantic adventure, set to a stirring soundtrack.

Joan of Arc (Luc Besson, 1999) 10pm, Sky Premier Given her striking, otherworldly performance in The Fifth Element, Milla Jovovich might have looked a natural choice for hubby Luc Besson's take on the maverick maid of Orleans, but unhappily she gives a strident, deeply unsympathetic performance. Otherwise this full-blooded medieval epic is a fine vehicle for showing off Besson's cinematic flair. The battles are superb, and the cast includes John Malkovich, Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway.

Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) 10.05pm, FilmFour Denis transfers Melville's 19th-century seagoing tale Billy Budd to the heat and dust of an isolated French Foreign Legion outpost in modern Djibouti to extraordinary effect. Denis Lavant's Sergeant Galoup is in his own words "the perfect legionnaire", but he conceives a violent hatred towards new recruit Sentain (Grégoire Colin) and begins to persecute him. It's a tale of jealousy and homoerotic repression, told largely without words, through striking images of the young soldiers going about their mundane tasks - their good work, as the title ironically puts it.